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PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

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[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AFAIK, it does. But the url structure is slightly different. Instead of
https://kbin.social/c/memes@lemmy.ml
It would be https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml with an “m” instead of a “c”.

I’m still learning, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be awesome for it to convert https://lemmy.ml/c/memes into https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml automatically.

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. I feel like I recall a browser extension doing something similar for Mastodon. But I don’t have the coding knowledge to adapt that to this use case.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I might look into modifying the extension to work for kbin

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So I managed to get the extension to an usable state.
It adds that little kbin icon to the beginning of the url or mention, if you click that icon you will go to the kbin link of that community. It works for all websites so if you are browsing on a lemmy site it should work there too.
I am currently working on testing it and publishing it to the chrome and firefox stores.